DIGIT 2025

DIGIT is an annual workshop conducted by the Special Interest Group on Adoption and Diffusion of Information Technology (SIG ADIT) as a pre-conference activity of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). It serves as a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in the adoption and diffusion of information technology on individuals, organizations, and societies. The workshop is typically restricted to about 40 participants and includes full presentations, roundtable discussions, and panel discussions.

DIGIT 2025 Workshop

When: Sunday, December 14, 2025 (1 pm-5 pm CT)

Where: Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Submissions Due Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2025 Wednesday, October 15, 2025 (11:59 pm EDT)

 
The Special Interest Group on the Adoption and Diffusion of Information Technology (SIGADIT) invites submissions from researchers and practitioners for the 2025 DIGIT Workshop. 

Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI), including generative AI, large language models (LLMs), and emerging agentic systems, are transforming industries and redefining how organizations operate. These technologies are driving deep innovation by automating tasks, augmenting human capabilities, and enabling intelligent coordination across diverse systems. As AI continues to evolve from a supportive tool to a more autonomous agent, it opens new pathways for digital integration, process reconfiguration, and adaptive decision-making. 

The growing deployment of AI across sectors presents both opportunities and challenges. On the one hand, AI offers the potential to unify fragmented digital infrastructures, enhance interoperability, and streamline operations. On the other hand, it raises complex questions around resistance, adoption, trust, explainability, governance, contestability, and the human role in AI-mediated environments. Alongside AI, other emerging technologies, such as digital platforms, augmented reality, and algorithmic infrastructures, are also contributing to the evolving digital landscape and merit close scholarly attention.

Aligned with this year’s conference theme—Achieving Digital Integration in the Age of AI—DIGIT 2025 invites researchers to explore how intelligent technologies can enable seamless connectivity across platforms, departments, organizations, and industries. The integration of agentic systems into organizational workflows calls for renewed attention to issues of implementation, coordination, resistance, and transformation. As AI and other emerging technologies become deeply embedded in everyday routines at individual, organizational, and societal levels, the need for theoretical grounding and empirical insight in IT adoption and diffusion research becomes more urgent. DIGIT offers a vibrant space for scholars to engage in dialogue, share findings, and build new understanding of how emerging digital technologies are shaping work, innovation, and social structures. We especially welcome contributions that speak directly to this year’s theme. We also continue to invite high-quality research across the broader landscape of technology adoption, diffusion, and use.

Potential topic areas include, but are not limited to:

  • Adoption, diffusion, and use of AI (i.e., agentic systems, generative AI) and other emerging technologies (i.e., augmented reality, metaverse, etc).
  • Exploring how IT adoption strategies drive digital integration, enable process reconfiguration, and support adaptive decision-making.
  • Impact of digital natives entering the workforce on adoption and diffusion, focusing on the transition from hedonic to utilitarian systems.
  • Digital transformation through the integration of information technologies, especially AI-based systems, across industries such as healthcare, education, finance, and the public sector.
  • Multi-level effects of contextual factors such as group, organization, and culture on adoption/resistance/diffusion/abandonment.
  • Exploring how individual values, perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes shape the resistance, adoption, use, diffusion, and abandonment of next-generation information technologies.
  • Examining cognitive structures of users beyond perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes; developing comprehensive cognitive models of adoption.
  • Problematizing and questioning foundational assumptions in adoption research.
  • Navigating responsible and ethical considerations in the development, adoption and diffusion of AI technologies such as transparency, trust, contestability, fairness, etc.
  • Digital ecosystems and their effects on adoption, diffusion, resistance, and abandonment of digital solutions.
  • Diffusion of new digital solutions in support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
  • Adoption and diffusion of digital solutions for achieving digital resilience.
  • Individual and collective technology use behaviours, such as adaptation, coping, improvisation, and effective use in the presence of major crises and disruptions.
  • Multi-level studies considering the rippling effects of disruptions and their implications for IS adoption and diffusion.
  • Security, privacy, and risk management in the adoption and use of AI and emerging technologies.
  • New qualitative, quantitative, and design science methodological approaches to examine the dynamics of IT adoption and diffusion.
  • Emerging use cases of agentic systems and autonomous AI tools in business, education, and government.
  • Advances in robotics and automation and their adoption in various sectors.

Submitted research can be conceptual, analytical, design-oriented, or empirical in nature. The workshop will include paper presentations, paper roundtables, and expert panel discussions.
 

Instructions for Contributors
In the interest of discussing the most current research in this area, we welcome

  • Completed research papers (16 single-spaced pages)
  • Research-in-progress papers (8 single-spaced pages)

All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Papers should not have been published previously in other proceedings or journals, nor be under review elsewhere. However, it is the general objective of the workshop that the papers will be submitted to a premier outlet after the DIGIT workshop.

Proceedings of the workshop will be published in the AIS Electronic Library. The authors can choose whether they want the full paper or only an extended abstract to be published. For past proceedings, see: https://communities.aisnet.org/sigadit/digit/digit-proceedings

Submissions Due: Tuesday, September 30, 2025 Wednesday, October 15, 2025 (11:59 pm EDT)


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Instructions for Submission
The deadline for submission of papers is Tuesday, September 30, 2025 Wednesday, October 15, 2025 (11:59 pm EDT). We will review and accept manuscripts shortly after this date.

Papers, both complete research (16 pages) and research-in-progress (8 pages) submissions, must be single-spaced, include an abstract, and be submitted in Microsoft Word format. These page limits are all-inclusive; they include the title, body of the paper, figures, tables, references, and all appendices. A separate title page should include the paper title and the authors' names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses. The main body of the paper should have the title, but no author identification. All papers must conform to the instructions given in the DIGIT 2025 submission template. Any submission that does not conform to the template or exceeds the page limits will be desk-rejected without review.

The paper submission follows a two-step approach:

  1. Follow the link and fill out the form to receive an email with your submission number: https://forms.office.com/e/Zu4SuPtb7U
  2. Forward the email to DIGIT.Submissions@gmail.com and attach your research paper.

Questions regarding paper submissions can be sent to the program co-chairs: Christoph Weinert (christoph.weinert@uni-bamberg.de) and Arturo Cano Bejar (acanobej@nmsu.edu)

Participation

The workshop will be a half-day event, on Sunday, December 14, 2025, as an in-person event. At least one author must register and attend the workshop to present the paper if the work is accepted. However, you do not have to submit a paper to attend the workshop, and we are excited to have scholars of all levels come together and discuss topics of information technology adoption and diffusion and participate in panels and roundtables. 

We especially encourage PhD students to participate in our workshop. For PhD students with accepted papers in DIGIT, there will be opportunities to receive scholarships covering DIGIT registration fees and potentially ICIS registration fees. This decision will be made based on the quality of accepted papers. Authors who are PhD students should specify this information in their affiliation on the title page of their submissions.

Registration

How: Please register via the ICIS registration website. The workshop is in-person and can be added to your ICIS registration or as a stand-alone attendee.

DIGIT Workshop Committee
For information on SIGADIT and the DIGIT workshop, please contact the 2025 DIGIT workshop committee:

Azadeh Savoli
DIGIT 2025 Workshop Chair
azadeh.savoli@skema.edu
SKEMA Business School
Paris, France

Christoph Weinert
DIGIT 2025 Program Co-Chair
christoph.weinert@uni-bamberg.de
University of Bamberg
Bamberg, Germany

Arturo Cano Bejar
DIGIT 2025 Program Co-Chair
acanobej@nmsu.edu
College of Business, New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM, USA

Saeed Akhlaghpour
2025 SIGADIT Chair-Elect
s.akhlaghpour@uq.edu.au
Business School, The University of Queensland
Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Hamed Qahri-Saremi
2025 SIGADIT Chair
hamed.qahri-saremi@colostate.edu 
College of Business, Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO, USA

Zach W. Y. Lee
2025 SIGADIT Past-Chair 
zachwylee@gmail.com
The University of Leicester
Leicester, UK